Record-slip support



J. WILLY.

RECORD SLIP SUPPORT APPLIC'AUGN HLED JULY i'5,-1919.

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UNITED-STATES?- JOHN. WILLY, or CHICAGO, InLIivoIs.

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T0 allwhomz't ma y concern; V Be it known that I, JOHN' WVI LY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cookaand State of Illinois, have-invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Record-Slip Supports, offwhich the following is a specification. 7 1,

My invention, relates to anlinformation rack such as may be used for hotel front oflices, golf club handicapping devices, directories or anything of that kind where it is' necessary to havealargenumber of small separate items which may from time to time be moved. One object is'to provide such a rack wherein separate holders I or" carriers may be provided for each item .and wherein an item or notation may be changed on the holders or carriers and the carrier thus may be easily and conveniently changed in position. T V

In generalterms, my invention comprises the use of a flat slotted rack, a series of separate indicating blocks attached to the face of the flat rack by means of rearwardly projecting key shaped members, so shaped that they will pass through the slots in the rack rear by engagement with the slot. When'it when the block is in substantial parallelism with the slot but ;will be held snugly in position when the block is perpendicular to the slot A series of theseblocks may be separated one from the other, all held from the is desired to withdraw any one'of them, all that is necessary is to liftupall .above the one to be withdrawn untilsufiicient room is had to turn. it when it may be slipped out and placed anywhere desired. The slot must al-' ways be longer than the column of blocks by a distance equal to the length of one of the blocks. j e

I propose to fasten informationsheets or slips on the blocks by means of a rounded vertently removed except by actually tea-ring v .the fabric of the slip itself.

My invention is illustrated in the accom-- panying drawings where1n- Figure 1 is an elevation of my nvention;

"PATEN Specification of Letters Patent. Application filed July' 16,

' mation; slips;

Patented June 7, 11921. 1919. seriai'ire. 31 1,1134. V.

ZQFF E- Fig. 2 is a vertical section on the line ofFig lr;

Fig. glis'an elevation of one'of the infor- Fig. 4: is a rear view of one of the blocks. 7 Like parts are indicated by like characters throughout. i .A is the main supporting framewith a central slot A which is enlarged at the rear as atA w B, B are sliding blocks, in eacho-f which s is positioned the screw threaded member B enlarged and flattenedas at B for engage 'ment with the slot A B B are pins in the front face of the block-Bladapted to sup-. port the information slip C which is per;

forated at C C C G are slits extending from the perforations C C C? is a base rest-adapted-tosupport the row of blocks from below. I ,The use ancloperation are as follows 2- There may; be one or more separate".

columns of record block's; Each of them;

will. be held against the face of the rack by the key engaging theslot and there will be enough clearance at the top of the rack so that the blocksin the column maybe moved up to make it'possible-to rotate any one of the blocks far. enoughto let the keycome out through the slot; At other timesallrthe blocks will be held by theirjengagement with r the slot}; By this arrangement any individual block may be moved about in" the column or from one column to another without any particularidifliculty. v I

In additionto this theseparate informa- V tion slips are detachably fastened upon the blocks and held: there so that they cannot be blown or dropped off without complete destruction of the slip. .The rounded pinor knob comes right down flush with the face of the block and so when the fiat paper slip with its small round holes is put on the block, each one of these holes engages one of the knobs and tends'to seek the smallest diameter of the knob. The result is that the slips of paper are held snugly against the face ofthe block by the engagement'of the walls of the perforations with the knobs.

paper is perforated to engage a post or knob, clearly we would only have theresistance to bending of the" paper to hold thehstrip in place, whereas, the scheme which is here proposed will have the actual tensile strength of thepaperservingto hold theslip in place.

My apparatus is peculiarly fitted for use iii-hotel oflices andthe'like where different kinds of information must be available at all times and wherein suddenand frequent changes in the'entries are made. The idea is, for instance, that ifyou have a man in'a room, you will write his name and the room number ona slip'and stick that slip on one of the recordjblocks, You will then putthe' slip in its numerical or alphabetical sequence in therackl Iifnow thexnan changes room's,

it is only necessary to change the room numenters on that slip his scores #His handicap her on the slip and take out the block and put it with the new number back in its'nuniencal sequence, or re arrange an alphabets cal arrangement.

hen again {in connection with handicap ping schemes forgolf clubs, each player has a slip or paper withhls name on lhZLI'IClYllG position depends onthe scores." He can move his blockab'out iii therackto its proper available, for another scorer;

place, depending upon hisscore, I

the block is tiallyitangent to .said surface the slits. being e can do this without detaching the slip'ffroni the block and ifat soineflater date they no longer want to keep hisfscore, all theyhave to do is to pen his slip off the block and b'lhe inainsupporting board niay ibe hungir i erticallyjorlaid down as, for example,.upon

"a table." In order to locate the blocksin the board, they are turned so as to lie parallel to the slot and the broad portion of the wing screw.ispinserted within the slot. The block "1s then'tufned so as to lie across'the' slot and niay 'bemoved about without disengagement therefrom. The information desired,

such, for eXample',jas names or numbers, is

written'upon tlie slip'sand-slipped over the pinheads on the block. interchangeable,

With iny device arrangedas above outlined, any rearrangeinentflis simple. If I This is, -oi course,

desire to renio eflonejblock "or to change its position withjrelation to the other, 1 merely ral'se'them 'suiliciently to turn it parallel to theslot and remove'it' 111 the samenianner 7 I then replace it at any desired point.

l'clai-rn-zf 1" i a I a The combination with a record slip-inf a}supporttherefor, comprisinga plurality of -face projections, a plurality of? separate perforations in saidslipto engage sa d pro- 7 )GCiJlOIlS; each oisald perforatlonsinwardly slit toward and shortof the'other.

1 2. A'lQCOIClSllP havingaperforation in each end, there'being a slit in theslip extend 1119; from each perforation toward and short 01 the othena holdertor recordslipscoinprising a supporting niembenhaving a hat slip engaging surface," and a plurality of rounded knobs proyecting irom and substanaclapted'to pass-over said knobs;

in the presence of two witnessesthis; 12th, day of July, 1919. Y Y

Withessesf I l 5 Y Enrr i L. lgoncrnn,

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